The Kaiser in acknowledging greetings from Marshal Hindenburg and the
Chancellor on the anniversary of his accession (June 15th) indulged himself in argroteeque travesty of historical fact, seasoned with Pecksniffian religiosity. In the years before the war "Germany's horizon gradually darkened "—we may ask, in wonder, who or what darkened it. Germany was in arms " in its decisive struggle for existence and the right to live." Who denied to Germany the sight to live, and to live up to her newly advertised principles of " right, freedom, honour, and morality," as contrasted with
" Anglo-Saxon principles, with the idolatry of Mammon" ? The Kaiser sees himself, or at least presents himself to the world, as " Prince of Peace " unwillingly forced into war. Has he read the Lichnowsky Memoirs ? These accession manifestoes must be attributed either to progressive mental instability, or to a oonsoious hypocrisy, so amazingly sustained because it has become a second nature.
